When we last heard from Outplay Entertainment - the new social and mobile games publisher, founded by Douglas and Richard Hare - they had launched the company with some ambitious recruitment plans and the best wishes of the Scottish Government ringing in their ears. Then it went a little bit quiet. Well, it turns out …
Cobra Moves Into Slick New Dundee HQ
Faster than the speed of news comes the breaking story that Cobra has moved into rather plush new office premises on Dundee's happening waterfront. The company's phone number remains the same, but you can now find Cobra at: Cobra Mobile Limited Unit 23, City Quay Camperdown Street Dundee, DD1 3JA
IGDA – Scottish Chapter
The International Game Developers Association is a global non-profit organisation serving games developers (according to the website). There was, very briefly, a chapter in Scotland, which met a couple of times in Stirling, on the basis that it was equally inconvenient for everyone. It didn't last however and while there are a number of individual …
Dundee Game Jam – May 28th 2011
Dundee, city of many discoveries. Home to jute, journalism and the all-new Dundee Game Jam. Taking place at Abertay University on (Saturday) May 28th, from 09.30 - 17.00. It's open to students, professional game developers, ex game developers, reformed games developers, talented amateurs and anyone who can put together the basic pieces of a videogame. …
Cohort Closes Doors
It's been reported across all of the major games industry websites that Dundee's Cohort Studios is to close down, with all staff being laid off. All 25 members of staff have been given redundancy notices and the company is starting to wind down. This is despite the recent announcement of Cohort's first original title for PSN …
Guest Editorial: +AsDesigned Games – From There To Here
+AsDesigned Games was formed in 2010 by several former Realtime Worlds employees; the small team was formed after the well publicised and unfortunate demise of the Dundee developer. The +ADG team consisted of a few former QA testers who simply wanted to create some fun games and boost their portfolios/CVs at the same time. After …
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Cobra Launches iBomber Defence On Mac Store
Dundee's Cobra launched a tower defense (yes, with the American spelling) title in its hugely successful iBomber franchise, for the iPhone and iPad in late 2010, where it quickly proved just as popular as its predecessors. iBomber Defense offers all of the classic elements of a tower defense game. Players must place different types of weapon …
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Introducing Euphonious
Euphonious is a new company, headquartered in Dundee, created by industry veteran and long-time audio geek Raymond Usher, formerly of Realtime Worlds, Rockstar North and DMA Design. Euphonious is offering a comprehensive range of audio services to digital, broadcast, animation and of course, interactive companies. From sound effect creation to music composition, licensing, direction and …
Dare To Be Documentary Airs This Weekend
At last year's Dare to be Digital competition and ProtoPlay event, visitors and competitors were carefully followed by a dedicated camera crew from HeadLight Scotland, who were on site to carefully record and capture the whole experience. Now, all of their hard work can be seen on national TV, when the three-part series runs on …
Denki Is 11
Despite a fairly rough 2010, Denki, Scotland's smiliest, shiniest games studio has officially hit 11 years old. As is traditional, they made a cake. No word on the presence of Jelly and/or ice cream, but we're fairly sure there would have been games, party hats and twinkles. We'd like to wish Denki many happy returns …